13 Years of Laravel, SaaS, and Knowledge Sharing: The Artisan of the Day Is Peter Suhm.
Peter Suhm has been using Laravel since 2012 and has built several SaaS products on Laravel. Today, he works at Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS.
A prolific entrepreneur known for working on multiple projects, Peter founded WP Pusher and Branch, and later the form builder Reform. In the summer of 2025, he joined the Laravel team to help build the MCP SDK used in Boost.
Early PHP Roots and the Laravel Shift
“I started making websites when I was like 11 years old,” Peter says. He would use his mother’s recipes and the books he read and build websites about them. “I’ve always made websites and used PHP.”
After a short stint in Rails, his first job as a developer, Peter found his way back to PHP. “Then Taylor [Otwell] started working on Laravel, and I kind of saw that and was like, well, I guess I don’t have to use Rails. I could just go back to using PHP. So I was really early on the Laravel train and since then I’ve been using it for everything.”
At Tailwind Labs, Peter uses Laravel Nova daily to manage +100,000 Tailwind Plus customers, automating refunds and other customer support tasks. “I get to use Laravel quite a lot,” he says, explaining how the framework helps the Tailwind team manage a large customer base as a small eight-person team.
Tech Stack: Laravel, Inertia, and React
Besides his role at Tailwind Labs, Peter is now working on OGKit, a tool for generating dynamic Open Graph images for websites. His stack of choice is consistent. “It’s Laravel and Inertia and React. And that’s what I use for everything. I love Inertia. I’ve used it since my colleague Jonathan at Tailwind Labs built it, and I’ve used it since it was just a blog post on his website before it was even a library.”
Sharing the Knowledge
Peter has been sharing his developer knowledge for more than 10 years. He has spoken at Laravel Live UK, Laravel Live DK, and a string of local meetups, alongside past talks at WordPress conferences. He even co-started the Laravel meetup in Denmark back in 2014.
This year, he joined the roster of Laravel speakers once again, delivering a talk titled “High-speed Laravel development with Cursor” at Laravel Live Denmark 2025.
“I’ve always loved sharing stuff and giving talks,” he says. When it comes to choosing a topic, he usually shares what he’s “excited about.”
When asked for advice, he points developers back to fundamentals. “The tip is to become a good developer, study some of the classics, and read some of the old Uncle Bob [Robert C. Martin] books about refactoring and test-driven development. It gives a really solid foundation.”
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